Friday: Should Florida kill the death penalty?

May 2, 2014|By Gary Stein

The death penalty should be executed.

That has to be the conclusion after the latest botched execution, this one in Oklahoma. The murder convict, Clayton Lockett, had one of his veins explode while the lethal cocktail was being administered. Lockhart went into a writing, gasping fit.

And the drugs didn’t kill him. He died of a heart attack after half an hour.

No doubt, Lockett was an awful man.

But do we really want more botched executions? And in Florida — which leads the nation in death row exonerations — do we really want to risk executing an innocent person?

Life in prison without a chance for parole is a fitting punishment. Get rid of executions, once and for all.